The effect of use of edutainment on changes in hemoglobin levels in adolescents (Case study of SMPN 4 banjarbaru) Kania Nia1,*, Nurhayani Siti2, Marlinae Lenie3, Ulfah Nida3 1Department of Pathology Anatomy, Ulin General Hospital 2Student of Public Health Magister Program, Lambung Mangkurat University 3Environmental Health Department Medical Faculty, Lambung Mangkurat University *Correspondence: Nida Ulfah uulnida74@gmail.com
Online published on 9 January, 2019. Abstract Anemia is a body condition characterized by deficiency in size and number of erythrocytes or in insufficient hemoglobin levels for the function of O2 and CO2 exchange between blood tissues. The prevalence of anemia in adolescents in Indonesia is quite high, namely 21.7% with anemia sufferers aged 5–14 years by 26.4% and 18.4% of patients aged 15–24 years. Banjarabaru City is the highest area of anemia in adolescents in South Kalimantan Province at 58.75%. Efforts that can be made to improve the application of balanced nutrition in adolescents in preventing anemia have not been optimal either direct efforts such as giving tablets blood or not directly through counseling and socialization. another effort to provide information related to nutrition according to their needs, one of which is to provide nutritional education in the form of counseling edutainment. Edutainment is a form of counseling or education that is packaged in the form of fun entertainment. The purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of using edutainment on changes in hemoglobin levels in young women. The study uses a Quasi Experiment design with a pre-test and post-test group design approach. The number of samples was 90 young women who were taken by purposive sampling technique. The data obtained were then analyzed using Paired T-Test and Wilcoxon statistical tests for paired different tests, and Anova and Kruskall Wallis tests for unpaired different tests, which was then followed by Post Hoc test for Anova test and Mann Whitney test for Kruskall Wallis test. The results of statistical analysis showed that overall the p value obtained was <0.005, this indicates the meaning that edutainment booklet and edutainment video had different effects before and after the intervention was given to changes in hemoglobin levels in adolescent girls. Top Keywords Edutainment, Changes in Hemoglobin Level, Anemia in adolescents. Top |